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Bin Liners & Rubbish Bags

Bin liners and rubbish bags from 8 litre kitchen tidy up to 240 litre wheelie bin, in standard, heavy duty and certified compostable, supplied to clinics, aged care facilities, offices and commercial kitchens across Australia. Stocked brands include ThinkPac, MaxValu and Ecopack.

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Match the bag to the bin, not to the litre rating

The litre rating on a bin liner is a guide, not a guarantee of fit, because bins of the same capacity come in very different shapes. Two measurements get it right.

Width. Measure around the outside of the bin and halve it. That is the flat width the bag needs. A bag much narrower than this will not reach the rim; much wider and it collapses into the bin and the contents sit in a pocket at the bottom.

Length. Measure the bin height and add enough to fold over the rim, usually around 10 to 15 cm. Too short and the bag disappears inside on the first use, which is how liners end up double-bagged and waste doubles.

If a site is getting through far more liners than the bin count suggests it should, wrong sizing is almost always the reason.

Thickness, and why heavy duty is not always the answer

Bin liner thickness is quoted in microns. Light-gauge liners suit paper, packaging and general office waste. Heavy and extra heavy duty gauges are for kitchen waste, wet waste and anything with weight or sharp edges.

Thicker is not automatically stronger in the way people expect. Bag failures come from two different causes and they want different answers. A bag that splits down the side under load needs more gauge. A bag that tears from a single puncture, a bone, a tin lid, a broken cup, needs a material that stretches rather than one that is simply thicker, which is why heavier-gauge low-density liners outperform thin high-density ones on sharp waste even at similar strength ratings.

Compostable is a certification, not a description

This is where most buying mistakes happen, and it matters if your site has a waste contract or a sustainability commitment to report against.

Certified compostable bags are tested against Australian Standards: AS 4736 for commercial and industrial composting, and AS 5810 for home composting. These are the only claims that mean a bag will actually break down in an organics stream, and they are the ones an organics processor will accept.

Degradable and oxo-degradable bags are a different thing entirely. They fragment into smaller pieces of plastic rather than composting, and they are generally not accepted in organics collections. The words look similar on a carton and the outcome is not.

Our Ecopack range is certified compostable and runs from 8 litre caddy liners through to 240 litre wheelie bin bags, in rolls and box dispensers.

Colour coding and clinical waste

General waste liners are not a substitute for a regulated waste stream. Clinical, cytotoxic and other regulated waste in Australian healthcare settings goes into bags specified for that stream, in the colour that stream requires, and is handled under your facility protocol and your waste contractor agreement. Putting regulated waste into a general bin liner is a compliance problem, not a cost saving.

We stock those streams separately: clinical waste bags, cytotoxic waste bags, autoclave bags, incinerate waste bags and patient clothing bags.

What we stock

  • Kitchen tidy liners: 27 L and 36 L, white and black, on rolls and in cartons.
  • General and heavy duty: 54 L, 73 L, 78 L and 82 L in standard, heavy duty and extra heavy duty gauges.
  • Large and wheelie bin: 120 L and 240 L.
  • Certified compostable: the Ecopack range from 8 L to 240 L, in rolls and box dispensers.
  • Sanitary bin liners: for washroom sanitary units.

Related Categories

See also waste disposal, cleaning products and biodegradable products.

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